Gwendolyn Brooks : The Oracle of Bronzeville | Monument

Bronze sculpted bust of Gwendolyn Brooks with a wood porch in the background and large, stone circles in the foreground.

Location:

4532 S. Greenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60653

Located Within: Brooks (Gwendolyn) Park

Supervisor: Tony Fitzgerald

Artist: Margot McMahon

Medium: Bronze, wood, stone

Year Created: 2018

Installed: 2018

Features: Temporary, Monument, Sculpture

Description

The Chicago Park District, in partnership with the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, The Poetry Foundation, and Brooks Permissions, presents a memorial to Chicago, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks in Brooks Park. The sculpted bust is accompanied by a porch modeled after the poet's childhood writing spot, a stepping stone path etched with quotations from Annie Allen, and a stone circle.